Giles Motorsport has been TRS champion team four times, twice with Mitch Evans (2012 GP3 champion, now racing GP2); once with Nick Cassidy and once with Mitch Cunningham.

Thirteen countries will be represented in the 2014 championship which is contested at five circuits over five consecutive weekends, starting at Teretonga, the southernmost race track in the world, in Invercargill on January 10.

Five New Zealand-based teams will between them field 22 drivers in a series that finishes with the New Zealand Grand Prix at Manfield.